Jan Jennings papers

Collection — Box: 5

Identifier: 23-16-3913

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Exhibit items, records and related material for an exhibition researched and designed by Jennning's undergraduate and graduate students (2003-2006).

Includes slides used for teaching; prints and negatives used in her book Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings; photos and slides of student winners of various competitions (1993-2005); information about Interior Archetypes Research and Teaching Project , initiated in 1997.

Dates

1993-2010.

Creator

Jennings, Jan, 1946- (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor emerita in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University.

Jennings received a B.S. in Housing and Interior Design (1968) and a M.S. in Housing and Urban Studies (1969) both from Oklahoma State University.

Jenning's research interests focus on ordinary American buildings and interiors, as well as contemporary interior design history, theory, and criticism. She was a professor at Cornell from 1984-2012.